excavate
/ˈɛkskəveɪt/
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American sound/ˈɛkskəveɪt/
excavate
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ex - ca - vate -> excavate
Myanmar meaning
(vt) တူးဖော်သည်။
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၁။ တူးဖော်သည်။ excavate a buried city/a Greek vase.
၂။ (fml ) တူးသည်။ excavate a trench.
❏ excavation /ekskǝ'veÇʃn/ n
၁။ [U, C] တူးဖော်မှု (လုပ်ငန်း)။ recent excavations at Pompeii ❍ Excavation of the site has proved difficult.
၂။ [C usu pl ] တူးဖော်ပြီး သော နေရာ။ visit the excavations.
❏ excavator n (က) မြေတူးသမား။
(ခ) မြေတူးစက်။
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- excavate /'ekskǝveÇt/ v ၁။ တူးဖော်သည်။ excavate a buried city/a Greek vase. ၂။ ( fml ) တူးသည်။ excavate a trench. ❏ excavation /ekskǝ'veÇʃn/ n ၁။ [U, C] တူးဖော်မှု (လုပ်ငန်း)။ recent excavations at Pompeii
- Excavation of the site has proved difficult. ၂။ [C usu pl] တူးဖော်ပြီး သော နေရာ။ visit the excavations. ❏ excavator n (က) မြေတူးသမား။ (ခ) မြေတူးစက်။
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